Its about a good 3-4inch deep i think without measuring it.
I would get a photo but she never leaves her new coconut hide
Annoyingly thats the one thing she hasnt done. She showed all other breeding behaviour before pairing - such as trying to nest etc. We’ve put them together again tonight and plan to keep them together longer this time.
In my research. I’ve read that if a Crestie hasn’t laid infertile eggs, then she is not ready to breed.
I don’t know how true this is, but it’s something I’m sticking to.
I know you said she is 52g, but maybe she’s still not ready? How old is she?
Calculating from when you post, she is still within 45 days from pairing. My girl laid at 50 ISH days. I would hold off pairing until 50 days incase she has got eggs and she gets stressed out.
Also, I read that digging up their hole every day might cause stress. I checked every other day, unless it looked like they had buried the hole over
Which is why i dont think she was gravid. She’s 3 yeats old in October. Shes digging but not that often so I don’t think its a stress response. Like we’ll see her in the nest box moving stuff wround and then she’s out again about 5 mins later
/misread what you said!
We do check when we do a general mist in her cage but nothing too intrusive.
It may be, but if she’s laying now then just a late layer. Some girls don’t lay til later, or if you don’t notice she’s laid and in a bio viv the woodlice etc will eat them.
Just seen this, and not true as such. As I’ve had females at 9 months lay but she wasn’t ready as not right weight.
I’ve also had females not lay at all until paired.
I had a weird feeling and went thriugh her laybox and guess what I found?
More eggs!
Now here is the date problem, the first batch supposedly laid on day 61 - I think this is actually her second clutch of the season based on the dates otherwise it doesn’t add up? As it wouod be less than 30 days since her supposed first clutch.
So under the motion of deduction, there are two possible answers. We’ve found her first clutch which was hidden away so we didn’t find it but the eggs are still white. We candled and one doesn’t really show signs of life but we’re going to incubate anyway just in case.
The first clutch we found were laid at an ealier date, however weren’t found as soon as they were laid.
So in reality, we have no idea which was her first clutch until they hatch or don’t hatch with the potential dud.
See if older clutch is fertile.
How long has it been now? Should be black in there as baby will be growing!
Which would also mean you didn’t find them right away.
I’ve only just found a clutch last week that may only have 2-3 weeks left judging but how black the eggs in! Babies growing well
Yeah we went back and checked the first batch.
They all have black in them, the new batch look then to be newer as they still only have veins showing (or at least one is visible). How annoying!
Its such a shame when they dont know the schedule we were expecting eggs potentiaply as of next weekend so no idea whats going on now.
Ah so you defo missed the first ones then, if you can’t see through then basically it’s a waiting game of when they hatch, which could be any day to a week usually if fully black I’ve found!